• on the radar

  • 09.Jun
  • Tom Waits plays Phoenix
  • 6/17 at the Orpheum. Anticipation is high!

  • 30.Apr
  • it’s coming
  • latest overheard gossip: toronado’s opening day is 5/20. no one is looking forward more than me.

  • 12.Feb
  • slow and steady
  • I’ve started the slow switch from blogger (http://shootingstarsofthought. blogspot.com) to this site. Things might look a bit in disarray right now, but bear with me!

  • 09.Jan
  • In Defense of Food
  • Michael Pollan’s fifth tome, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, is on shelves now.
    Excerpts:
    Introduction (pdf) as posted on Michael Pollan’s website
    First chapter as posted in the New York Times
    Book Reviews:
    LA Times
    NY Times
    Slate
    Author Interviews:
    NPR

  • 14.Dec
  • more me!
  • In an of-course-i-have-time-for-this moment, I volunteered to be a guinea pig for a new accidental hedonist project–the “food diaries.”
    I’m not exactly sure what my “food diary” will shape up to be, but you can now find (and rss) more of my food-related musings at accidentalhedonist.com/duffystar.

  • blog

  • 16.Jul
  • La Locavore de BBQ
  • You know you’re a “locavore” when…the local paper does an article about eating locally and you personally know everyone quoted in the article.
    The San Diego Union Tribune’s food section this week was dedicated to the “County’s Bounty,” in the form of an article on eating locally by respected beer columnist (and reporter) Pete Rowe. Thanks [...]

  • posted in food + drink san + diego shooting stars
  • 13.Jul
  • OLS Week #6: Plank-Grilled Fish
  • To me, nothing says summer like corn on the cob hot off the grill. This week’s meal was a delicious excuse to indulge.

    The Meal:
    Plank Grilled Wahoo and Swordfish with Apricot Sauce

    Corn on the Cob and Foil-Roasted Squash Medley

    Simple and classic–it doesn’t get more summery.

  • posted in OLS Uncategorized food + drink shooting stars
  • 06.Jul
  • OLS Weeks 4 & 5
  • It’s OLS catch-up day!  (I apologize for the brevity of this post, but I’ve got a batch of homebrew going and I keep leaping up from the computer to tend to it).
    Week 4:
    Week 4 found me with a dozen friends over for a backyard barbeque, and the pleasure of realizing I could feed them locally. [...]

  • posted in OLS food + drink shooting stars
  • 06.Jul
  • One Local Summer Week # 3: Grouper!
  • Ah, me and OLS–there’s always a reason for me to get behind.  While busy weekends have kept me from posting, they haven’t kept me from eating delicious local meals. Here’s my meal from OLS week 3 which was easily my favorite meal of the summer so far.
    This week I stopped by the World Famous Smoked [...]

  • posted in OLS food + drink shooting stars
  • 15.Jun
  • One Local Summer Week #2: Elk!
  • Ok, I took some liberties with “local” this week, when I decided to explore the depths of my freezer and came across two elk ribeye steaks that a friend had given me last summer. The meat comes from his family’s ranch in Minot, North Dakota, and was part of an enormous dry-ice packed cooler that [...]

  • posted in OLS food + drink shooting stars
  • 09.Jun
  • This is the Week of Tom Waits
  • In anticipation of next week’s show at the orpheum, I’m declaring 6/9-6/13 the Week of Tom Waits. Basically, this involves listening to the entire Tom Waits disography, in order, broken up into about five albums a day. For anyone who wants to partake, here’s Monday’s line up:

    Closing Time
    The Heart of Saturday Night
    Nighthawks at the Diner
    Small [...]

  • posted in shooting stars song + dance
  • 08.Jun
  • One Local Summer Week 1
  • This week was the first week of one local summer, and I kicked it off with a classic: steak and potatoes.

    Ok, it was a little more involved than just steak and potatoes. Here were the dishes:
    Cherry & Vanilla Porter Marinated Tri-Tip with Porter-Glazed Shitake Mushrooms
    Grilled Artichokes with Sauteed Grape Tomatoes and Dill
    Tri-Color Medley of [...]

  • posted in OLS food + drink shooting stars
  • 05.Jun
  • Eating local and summer
  • It dawned on me the other week that had been almost a year since the start of last year’s One Local Summer. The exercise involved committing to eat one completely local meal just once a week, for each week of the summer. It was amazing, and that is an understatement. I started out knowing [...]

  • posted in OLS san + diego shooting stars
  • 31.May
  • Hollister the J
  • Ok, so I can’t get this beer out of my head. Here’s a bit more information on it:
    Hollister is a brewpub located in Goleta, CA, which is just outside of Santa Barbara. Looks like they’ve been open for little over a year, although two of the three owners have backgrounds in brewing (at the Santa [...]

  • posted in Uncategorized shooting stars
  • 31.May
  • Three important things about toronado
  • 1. Yes, they serve sausages.
    tonight there were 6 options:knockwurst, hot italian, linguica, veal bratwurst, a veal/pork brat, and one more i can’t remember. We ordered the linguica (taking up chef dylan’s suggestion), and the pork/veal brat, which were EXCELLENTLY paired with the Hollister “The j” and the Pizza Port Carlsbad Ruby Black, respectively. Lets just [...]

  • posted in food + drink san + diego shooting stars
  • diversions

  • 05.Jun
  • TIJ=around the corner
  • sometimes, it’s just more fun to fool around with site design than to write. Tonight, my hours were consumed with thanksgivinginjuly.com. Check it out!

  • 20.May
  • hipster t of the week
  • best t-shirt spotted at the City Beat Festival of Beers last weekend: “I listen to bands that don’t even exist yet.” Right on buddy.

  • 09.Jan
  • endless entertainment
  • kottke’s favorite links of 2007

  • 13.Sep
  • American cuisine?
  • The James Beard Foundation has an interesting poll on its website right now, which is kind of fun to think about. In conjunction with their Taste America celebration, they are asking visitors to share their thoughts on what comprises American cuisine. I liked taking the survey just for the challenge of thinking about what indeed [...]

Comments

  • jeff: A Weber grill - I thought I was the only one still using one of those throwbacks……
  • Peter Rowe: Hi Lauren, I’d love to hear about your eating local summer. What would be a good time to call? Or...
  • christopher carter: yeah i have been doing that (listening to the records) since his concert was announced for...
  • Shooting Stars of Thought: to say, I’m excited. But I touched on this last summer, and I’ll touch on it...
  • Shooting Stars of Thought: just once a week, for each week of the summer. It was amazing, and that is an...

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